{"id":652150,"date":"2026-06-22T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652150\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:40:09","slug":"boy-3-no-longer-critical-after-cambridgeshire-crocodile-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652150\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 3, no longer critical after Cambridgeshire crocodile attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers said they were called to the zoo at 13:34 BST on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said the boy, who was from Cambridgeshire and visiting the zoo with his family, sustained serious injuries &#8220;while in the enclosure&#8221; and was pulled out by zoo staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He received medical treatment at the scene before being taken to Addenbrooke&#8217;s Hospital in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Newman, the director of the National Centre for Reptile Welfare, told the BBC that he had spoken to the Johnson family, stating they were &#8220;all very distraught&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tracey was the first on the scene, but she was then joined by her husband Andy and their youngest son Edward. All three were involved in the rescue,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All three were heroes&#8230; they&#8217;re a close-knit family and they&#8217;re still quite shaken by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers said they were called to the zoo at 13:34 BST on Thursday. Police said the boy, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}